''Radlkoferotoma'' is a genus of South American
flowering plant
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s in the family
Asteraceae
Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...
.
[D.J.N.Hind & H.E.Robinson. 2007. Tribe Eupatorieae In: ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' vol.VIII. (Joachim W.Kadereit & Charles Jeffrey, volume editors. Klaus Kubitzky, general editor). Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Heidelberg.]
The genus name of ''Radlkoferotoma'' is in honour of
Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer
Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (19 December 1829, in Munich – 16 February 1927, in Munich), was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist.
Radlkofer became a physician in 1854 and earned a PhD in botany at University of Jena, Jena the following yea ...
(1829–1927), a
Bavarian taxonomist and botanist.
It was first described and published in Revis. Gen. Pl. Vol.1 on page 358 in 1891.
; Species
The Plant List search for Radlkoferotoma
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* '' Radlkoferotoma berroi'' (Hutch.) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Uruguay
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, Rio Grande do Sul
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* '' Radlkoferotoma cistifolia'' (Less.) Kuntze - Uruguay
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, Brazil
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* '' Radlkoferotoma ramboi'' (Cabrera) R.M.King & H.Rob. - Rio Grande do Sul
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References
Asteraceae genera
Eupatorieae
Flora of Southern America
Plants described in 1891
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